Extensions: Create Assignment Extensions

You may create sub-assignments that will only be visible to a chosen group of students. This feature can be particularly useful in two situations:

1. Granting assignment extensions to a specific student or group of students, with a new deadline reflected in the platform.
2. Creating different variations of the same assignment for different sub-groups of students.

• Add a New Extension to an Assignment
  • Possible Errors
• Convert an Existing Assignment into an Extension
  • Possible Errors
• Anonymous Assignment Extensions
• FAQs

Add a New Extension to an Assignment

With this feature, you can grant extensions or set up variations of an assignment for one or multiple students. To set this up, follow these steps:

1. Head to Journey > Assignments.
2. Open an assignment.
3. Click on New extension in the top right and a pop-up will appear.

4. From there, you will be prompted to choose the name for your extension and the students to be included in the extension.
5. Click Next and add a description, open date, due date, and grade release date. You can also enable the Hide this extension toggle so that students are unable to see it.
6. Click Create extension to save the changes. You can then edit the assignment extension as explained here. 

Possible Errors

You may create sub-assignments that will only be visible to a chosen group of students. This feature can be particularly useful in two situations:

1. Granting assignment extensions to a specific student or group of students, with a new deadline reflected in the platform.
2. Creating different variations of the same assignment for different sub-groups of students.

• Add a New Extension to an Assignment
  • Possible Errors
• Convert an Existing Assignment into an Extension
  • Possible Errors
• Anonymous Assignment Extensions
• FAQs

Add a New Extension to an Assignment

With this feature, you can grant extensions or set up variations of an assignment for one or multiple students. To set this up, follow these steps:

1. Head to Journey > Assignments.
2. Open an assignment.
3. Click on New extension in the top right and a pop-up will appear.

4. From there, you will be prompted to choose the name for your extension and the students to be included in the extension.
5. Click Next and add a description, open date, due date, and grade release date. You can also enable the Hide this extension toggle so that students are unable to see it.
6. Click Create extension to save the changes. You can then edit the assignment extension as explained here. 

Possible Errors

If one of the students chosen for the extension has already submitted work to the original assignment, you will need to remove their submission or deselect them. Only then you'll be able to create an extension for this assignment.

Note

Once an assignment extension is created, please do not hide the parent assignment from students. This can create access issues for the students on the extension of the hidden assignment preventing them from being able to load the assignments page.

Convert an Existing Assignment into an Extension of Another Assignment

This option can only be used between assignments created within the same app, e.g. 2 Handin assignments or 2 Turnitin assignments.

1. Head to Journey > Assignments.
2. Open an assignment.
3. Click on the two arrows icon next to the New extension button.

4. A pop-up will appear and you will be able to choose the name for your extension, choose the parent assignment, and choose students to be included in the extension.
5. Click Convert to save the changes.

Possible Errors

• If a chosen student has submissions in both parent and child assignments, you will need to navigate to either of these assignments and remove one of this student's submissions. Alternatively, you can deselect the student. Only then you'll be able to convert an existing assignment into its extension.
• If you are trying to convert an assignment into an extension of another assignment but can't find it in the Destination assignment drop-down, it is likely that those assignments have been created using two different tools. It's only possible to convert an assignment into an extension of another assignment if they were both created within the same app (Either in Handin or in Turnitin).

Anonymous Assignment Extensions

It's now possible to create extensions for anonymous assignments. However, there are two limitations:

• It's not possible to create an extension for anonymous assignments with existing submissions.
• Once an assignment is extended, it's not possible to anonymise / de-anonymise it. 

FAQs

Q: I can't find the option to create an extension for a group/anonymous assignment. Why?

A: It's not currently possible to create extensions for group assignments and some anonymous assignments, however, we plan on including this option in a future release.

Q: Can I move a student to an extension if they have already submitted their work (and their assignment has/hasn't been graded)?

A: Yes, regardless of whether their submission has been graded or not, you'll be able to add a student to an extension after deleting their original submission. 

a. For Handin, you can delete a submission directly from the Submissions list in Aula.

b. For Turnitin, you can remove a submission after opening Turnitin's Assignment Inbox.

For more details on the difference between these two options, please check this Turnitin help article on Paper Deletions on Turnitin.

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See Also

• Extensions: View, Edit, and Grade
• Edit an Assignment's Due Date